Haier US Appliance Solutions, Inc.

Rafi Shaik Mahammed

Srinivas Pasham

Abdel Hamad

Susheel Kumar Panda

Gaurav Kumar Verma

Srikanth Raavi Venkata

Rukmini Harika Relangi

Soumya Bhardwaj

Nithin Naga Venkata Yalamanchili

Storage systems for use in consumer appliances are provided. Storage system can be a storage assembly defining a vertical direction, a lateral direction, and a transverse direction, the vertical, lateral, and transverse directions being mutually perpendicular. The storage assembly includes a mounting bracket, a first mounting tab and a second mounting tab extending in the transverse direction from a first end of the mounting bracket. The first mounting tab and the second mounting tab are configured to be inserted into a mounting track disposed within the consumer appliance. The storage assembly also includes a storage receptacle which is supported at a second end of the mounting bracket.

Refrigerator dead space storage systems

A pill dispenser includes a housing and a slidable drawer with a dispenser cup therein. A storage cup is fixed within the housing. The pill dispenser also includes a movable probe, a flexible tip on the probe, and a suction pump in fluid communication with the flexible tip. The pill dispenser may be configured for and/or methods of operating the pill dispenser may include rotating the probe a position above the storage cup, translating the probe downward into the storage cup, and activating the suction pump. While the suction pump is active, the probe is translated to the position above the storage cup, rotated to a position above the dispenser cup, and translated downward into the dispenser cup. The suction pump is deactivated when the flexible tip is within the dispenser cup.

Pill dispenser for refrigerator appliance

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Louisville, KY, United States of America

Rafi Shaik Mahammed